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US 12,592,316 B2Granted
Diagnostic methods and systems using sound detection
AssigneeFresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.
InventorsJohn E. Tremblay, Harvey Cohen
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Abstract
A method of monitoring a medical treatment device includes detecting a sound of the medical treatment device with a detection device, determining whether the sound is an irregular sound, and deploying an intervention upon determining that the sound is the irregular sound.
Claims23
A method of monitoring a medical treatment device, the method comprising:
- detecting a sound of the medical treatment device with a detection device;
- determining, via a processor of the detection device, whether a sound signature of the sound matches a predetermined sound signature;
- determining, via the processor of the detection device, a phase of treatment of the medical treatment device out of a group of phases comprising pretreatment, mid-treatment, and posttreatment;
- upon a determination by the processor of the detection device that (i) the sound signature matches the predetermined sound signature and (ii) the phase of treatment is a first phase of treatment, automatically causing the medical treatment device to deploy a first intervention out of a group of first interventions comprising running a diagnostic on the medical treatment device, rebooting the medical treatment device, and stopping a treatment of the medical treatment device, and
- upon a determination by the processor of the detection device that (i) the sound signature matches the predetermined sound signature and (ii) the phase of treatment is a second phase of treatment, automatically causing the medical treatment device to deploy a second intervention out of a group of second interventions comprising running a diagnostic on the medical treatment device, rebooting the medical treatment device, and stopping the treatment of the medical treatment device,
- wherein the first phase of treatment is different than the second phase of treatment, and the first intervention is different than the second intervention.
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A medical treatment system comprising:
- a medical treatment device;
- a detection device configured to detect a sound of the medical treatment device, wherein a processor of the detection device is configured to:
- determine whether a sound signature of the sound matches a predetermined sound signature;
- determine a phase of treatment of the medical treatment device out of a group of phases comprising pretreatment, mid-treatment, and posttreatment;
- upon a determination by the processor of the detection device that (i) the sound signature matches the predetermined sound signature and (ii) the phase of treatment is a first phase of treatment, automatically cause the medical treatment device to deploy a first intervention out of a group of first interventions comprising running a diagnostic on the medical treatment device, rebooting the medical treatment device, and stopping a treatment of the medical treatment device, and
- upon a determination by the processor of the detection device that (i) the sound signature matches the predetermined sound signature and (ii) the phase of treatment is a second phase of treatment, automatically cause the medical treatment device to deploy a second intervention out of a group of second interventions comprising running a diagnostic on the medical treatment device, rebooting the medical treatment device, and stopping the treatment of the medical treatment device,
- wherein the first phase of treatment is different than the second phase of treatment, and the first intervention is different than the second intervention.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.